Sunday, February 26, 2012
Michael Shannon will return to A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago next season, the actor told the Tribune's Mark Caro in Los Angeles on Saturday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:42PM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2012
When Jamie Masada opened the now-famous comedy club Laugh Factory in Los Angeles in 1979, the first comic to appear was Richard Pryor. The oft-told story goes that when Masada tried to pay P…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2012
Northlight Theatre, which performs at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, has announced its 2012-13 season. The slate features the previously announced production of Ne…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Team Starkid, the Chicago entertainment company known for its relationship with "Glee" star Darren Criss and for its hugly popular series of musical parodies broadcast on YouTube, has come u…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:35PM[SHARE]The Paramount Theatre in Aurora said Wednesday that it will stage four well-known musicals during its 2012-13 season. This will be the historic venue's second year of producing its own Equit…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:44PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "A Catered Affair" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "A Catered Affair" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★★½ ... This Broadway musical…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:34PM[SHARE]It's confirmed: "Kinky Boots" will work out its kinks in Chicago. Producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig announced Wednesday that the new Broadway-aimed musical with music and lyrics by pop sta…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:17AM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Oohrah!" by LiveWire Chicago ★★★ and "He Who" by Theatre Zarko ★ for Steppenwolf Garage Rep
THEATER REVIEW: "Oohrah!" by LiveWire Chicago ★ …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member John Malkovich will give the "international message" on World Theatre Day, March 22, in Paris. This will be the 50th anniversary of the event,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "Kill Me" by WildClaw Theatre at the Athenaeum Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Kill Me" by WildClaw Theatre at the Athenaeum Theatre ★★ ... Most horror s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2012
"You guys in Chicago are used to improv," sneered the acidic Ben Bailey on Friday night at the opening of UP, the new comedy club at the Second City. "You can smell written material like a p…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:48PM[SHARE]We think we know what happened on the sticky-hot night of June 27, 1969, at a Greenwich Village bar known as the Stonewall Inn. A weary drag queen finally kicked a nasty cop, the story usual…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:50PM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "South Pacific" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "South Pacific" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★ ... It's impossible…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2012
Deep in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a weaver named Nick Bottom, the kind of ordinary, clumsy, clueless, overweight, middle-age, Cubs-and-Old Style-loving guy who can get his head transforme…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2012
In its first formal move outside North America, The Second City is joining with Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd., one of Japan's largest TV producers, talent managers and entertainment companies, i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "The Second City Improv All-Stars" in UP Comedy Club at Second City
THEATER REVIEW: "The Second City Improv All-Stars" in UP Comedy Club at Second City ... Finally, Chicago …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:15PM[SHARE]The Windy City Circus, a new non-profit circus that was slated for the Festival Hall on Navy Pier this month, has canceled at the last minute, due, its founder said, to financial problems ca…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:15AM[SHARE]Chicago-area fans of the Stratford Festival in Canada have a new and vastly more convenient way to fly to the popular theatrical destination. On June 14, American Eagle, the regional affilia…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:56AM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: Hunger at Lifeline Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: Hunger at Lifeline Theatre ★★★ ... The new production at the Lifeline Theatre is, in esse…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2012
If you've spent too many late nights at Second City hearing off-color improv suggestions that sound funny after several Stellas (but are, in fact, inane), then the ideas that flow from the 7…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 12, 2012
The House Theatre said Sunday that it had sold out its entire scheduled run of "Death and Harry Houdini" within five days of opening and now planned to add another month of shows at the Chop…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:49PM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2012
Maria Somma, a spokesman for the Actors' Equity union in New York, said Friday morning that the Victory Gardens Theater production of "Ameriville" was now being produced under an Equity …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2012
Within 24 hours last weekend, I watched two artistic directors make their debuts at the artistic helm of two Chicago theater companies: Halena Kays at The Hypocrites and Chay Yew at the Vict…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:26PM[SHARE]Video-theater hybrid is weighed down by its flaws
Beware, O Second City, of the perils of the plush-and-shiny new room with the new high-tech toys just begging to be used! Beware further o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "American Idiot" at the Oriental Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "American Idiot" at the Oriental Theatre ★★★½ ... For all their Berke…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:39PM[SHARE]The next show at the Royal George Theatre mainstage will be "Motherhood the Musical," a carefully targeted commercial show with mothers of all stripes in its marketing bulls-eye.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:38PM[SHARE]"War Horse,"the hit West End and Broadway show based on the children's novel by Michael Morpurgo and famous for its puppet horses, will be in Chicago for Christmas.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "Six Characters in Search of an Author" by the Hypocrites in the Chopin Theatre ★★★
The quirky, lovable aesthetic of The Hypocrites is going to be in safe …
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